Remaking Culture and Music Spaces

Ian Woodward is Professor of Cultural Sociology at Syddansk Universitet, Denmark. He is an internationally recognised scholar in the sociology of consumption and material cultures, the sociology of cosmopolitanism, and aspects of cultural production and consumption in contemporary music economies. Most recently, he was co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Consumption, and his books include Labels: Making Independent Music, The Sociology of Cosmopolitanism, The Festivalization of Culture, and Vinyl: The Analogue Record in the Digital Age. Jo Haynes is Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Bristol. Her research focuses on the sociology of popular music, ethnicity/race, diversities, and cultural work, (digital) entrepreneurship; and the cultural industries. She has published a research monograph called Music, Difference and the Residue of Race and has published in leading journals including British Journal of Sociology, Cultural Sociology, and New Media & Society. Pauwke Berkers is Professor of Sociology of Popular Music in the Department of Arts and Culture Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is an expert in the study of inequalities in arts and culture—particularly race/ethnicity and gender. He has published in leading journals in sociology and gender studies. Berkers has coordinated several national and international research projects. Aileen Dillane is Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Limerick. Her research interests include local/global Irish musical identities, protest music, and music festivals. Select publications include the co-edited volumes Songs of Social Protest: International Perspectives (2018), and Public and Political Discourses of Migration (2016). Karolina Golemo is a sociologist of culture, and Assistant Professor at the Institute of Intercultural Studies, Jagiellonian University in Krakow. Her research interests focus on cultural diversity of Italy, Spain, and Portugal; cross-cultural identities and integration of immigrants’ descendants, migrants and artistic expression; music in intercultural relations; and postcolonial relations in cultural perspective.

Introduction: Making sense of culture and music space during and beyond the pandemic

Part I: Affects

1. Festival atmospheres: social, spatial, and material explorations of physically distanced festivals

2. How live is live? COVID-19, live music and online performances

3. ‘Like a winter without Christmas’: Interaction rituals and the disruption of the Roskilde Festival

Part II: Infrastructures

4. Curating listening: The cultural production of a (commercial) experience

5. Reconceiving spatiality and value in the live music industries in response to COVID-19

6. Out of office: The broader implications of changing spaces and places in arts-based work during the COVID-19 pandemic

7. The sounds of silence: Concerts, musicians, and the COVID-19 pandemic

8. Self-organisation in musicians’ collective workspaces before, during and after COVID-19: A model for moving forward?

Part III: Spaces

9. A sonic paradise in the countryside: Pop-rock festivals as drivers of creative tourism development in small cities and rural areas in the post-pandemic era

10. Refiguring pathologised festival spaces: Governance, risk and creativity

11. Experimenting with adulthood in the time of pandemic: The 18th edition of the Sacrum Profanum festival in Cracow

12. The island of freedom on the Vltava

13. The moral complexity of organising a civically engaged festival during the COVID-19 pandemic

Part IV: Futures

14. Unknown futures: Towards a more resilient Dutch popular music sector

15. At the juncture of the liminal and the neo-liberal: Can the smaller, independent commercial music festival survive into the future?

16. Regions in recovery? The significance of festivals for regenerating and reimagining regional community life

17. Music missionaries: How Dutch music festivals utilised the pandemic to bounce forward